Quotes from Markus Persson

I didn't really have much luck with women when I was younger, so on some level, I feel like I don't really belong.

I am a romantic person and maybe have this Hollywood perception of love... but then, it's never really like the movies.

I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre.

We lived in this area that was basically two circular roads next to each other. There were forests and pastures and stuff. I remember walking around the forest quite a bit.

I've never run a company before, and I don't want to feel like a boss. I just want to turn up and do my work.

When you have the kind of success 'Minecraft' has brought, you can just choose yourself the way you want to do things.

I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming.

I feel there is this looming cloud over my life.

I'm a little confused by love.

PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.

The more consoles the better, because if there's more competition, they might get more open.

I wouldn't want to do anything like 'Minecraft' again, where it's, like, an on-going thing, and there are customers I have to keep happy.

The first game I actually bought myself with my own money was 'The Bard's Tale.'

I used to be really stressed about that: like, how do I follow up on 'Minecraft,' because I have this weird expectation to. But after a while, what I realized I enjoy doing is prototyping and playing with ideas.

I first wore a hat after seeing a friend wear a hat. It seemed like a neat way to keep snow off my head without having to wear a beanie, so I tried it on for a while. Turns out I started wearing the hat at around the time people took pictures of me and put them online and in newspapers, so it kind of became part of my public image.

With the creative stuff, I have highs of being very productive and lows of being not productive. I have that in my moods as well.

Facebook creeps me out.

When I was young, we didn't have indie games. We had 'garage developers' or similar terms, who were just small teams making games out of passion.

We try to make games we want to make for the sake of making fun games and not necessarily to make a profit.

I kind of 'code-sketch,' where I get started with a project by actually writing the code for it and getting something up on the screen. Then I play around with it and see if it's any fun and change the parts that aren't.

The only thing I think that is wrong with modern gaming now is the free-to-play stuff on mobile phones. I think it's very cynical and cold and weird.

I have the ability to get code done, but I'm impatient, and it's scrappy as a result. Maybe that helped me with 'Minecraft,' as it came quickly. But, well, at some point, I'd like to actually become a good programmer.

Just make games for yourself and try to have a critical eye to what you do. If you genuinely like the game, there will be other people who like it as well.

I think the more realistic you try to make the graphics and the experience, the more you limit yourself to a single vision.